Health and Safety

Vaccinated but Covid-positive: why the numbers from the fourth wave of the pandemic confirm the effectiveness of vaccines

Medulloblastoma: Hospital researchers with the Universities of Tor Vergata, Sapienza and Trento have discovered the mechanism of the most aggressive form of the disease and identified drugs to block its growth

Ethiopia (Africa): The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, today started a six-day mission to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Italian paediatricians talk about the Covid vaccine. Why vaccinate children against Covid-19? And then: is the vaccine safe? Does it protect against variants? Are there any side effects?

Funds will be used in research. for clinical trials for new treatments and vaccines and to fight Covid variants

Vidprevtyn serum to be evaluated by the European Medicines Agency, EMA

South Sudan, no more Covid vaccines: most of the drugs were donated to neighbouring Kenya because of the risk that the vials would expire before they could be efficiently distributed

Vaccine deliveries in Africa: for WHO executives, the responsibility must be attributed to delays in the delivery of the serum produced by the Anglo-Swedish multinational AstraZeneca

Guillain-Barré syndrome and Covid: over the past few days it has been reported that Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine may have triggered the rare Guillain-Barré syndrome, a degeneration of the myelin sheaths lining nerve fibres,…

Aerosol against covid and its variants: long-chain polyphosphates can be nebulised in patients suffering from the disease to counteract its effects. Validation of the therapy for human use is now awaited